Matheus Polkorny

I started contributing to Debian in 2024, during the MiniDebConf in Belo Horizonte, and since then I have been actively involved in the community.

Over time, I became more engaged with the Debian ecosystem, especially in package maintenance and improvements, eventually becoming a Debian Maintainer in 2025.

I hold a degree in Control and Automation Engineering, which is not exactly related to this field, but we work with what we have, right? Currently, I work at IPT (Technological Research Institute of the State of São Paulo)

Accepted Talks:

Age verification is moving into the OS layer: Can open source still shape the standards?

Age verification and digital identity systems are increasingly being pushed into operating system-level APIs. This talk presents the Brazilian “ECA Digital” consultation as a case study of how these requirements are being translated into technical infrastructure while still under active definition, with ongoing exploration involving a public research institution (IPT) and industry actors such as Lenovo. We focus strictly on the technical dimension of emerging systems design, avoiding legal or policy discussion. The goal is to analyze implications for open source systems, particularly interoperability, privacy, and the risk of proprietary implementations becoming de facto standards.

Age verification at the OS layer: A BoF on open standards

This BoF opens a discussion on how open source communities can engage with emerging age verification and identity API standards being developed in Brazil and elsewhere. We will explore technical challenges around interoperability, privacy-preserving design, and the role of Linux and Debian-based ecosystems in preventing vendor lock-in. The session is focused on system design and implementation perspectives, not legal or policy analysis, and aims to gather input and identify possible directions for collaboration and reference implementations.